Johnson v. State

AMDAHL, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal by James Harold Johnson, age 52, from an order of the Olmsted County District Court denying his petition for postconviction relief in the form of re-sentencing according to the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines pursuant to Minn.Stat. § 590.01, subd. 3 (1982). We affirm.

Petitioner was convicted in 1970 of kidnapping and third-degree murder. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison for the kidnapping. His convictions were affirmed in State v. Johnson, 291 Minn. 407, 192 N.W.2d 87 (1971).

In State v. Champion, 319 N.W.2d 21, 23 (Minn.1982), we stated that “we…